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Building Police--and Nations--in Micronesia
From Amanda Loder | 20:00
As the US government has found in Iraq and Afghanistan, an essential part of nation-building is creating a strong, well-trained police force that combines a modern understanding of human rights with traditional law-ways. But it's not the first time America's had to learn this lesson. In this piece, Bryan Vila talks about his years training police in the strategically important region of Micronesia in the northern Pacific. By the time Vila was there (the late 1970's and early '80's), the US government had already spent more than 30 years trying to convert the islands back into viable, independent nations.
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This is a narrative piece with music.
The 100 Year Legacy of the Big Burn
From Amanda Loder | 29:04
Evergreen Documentary: About a hundred years ago, one of the largest wildfires in US history taught Americans to fear flames. The Big Burn of 1910 charred large swaths of Idaho, Montana, Washington and British Columbia and led to the creation of a disastrous Forest Service fire suppression policy. Although the policy was discredited and the Forest Service claims it was abandoned decades ago, it actually continues today, and American taxpayers are still paying for it by the billions. 29-minutes with music.
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Includes archival tapes of interviews with a 1910 fire survivor, analysis of the how the suppression policy began, how it was discredited, and why the Forest Service nonetheless continues with essentially the same dangerous management policy. Examines failures of the National Fire Plan of 2000 in light of development in the wildland West. Investigates other complications of forerest management tied to the crumbling timber economy and climate change.